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An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...simple scratch tests. Figure 11 Three very hard minerals: (a) topaz (5 cm long); (b) corundum (variety ruby) (1 cm); (c) diamond (6 mm). The 19th century German mineralogist, Friedrich Mohs, devised a useful scale of mineral hardnesses, consisting of well-known minerals, ranked in order of increasing hardness, from talc, with a hardness of 1, to diamond, with a hardness...
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...code will recognise the pattern you were asked to transcribe as representing the letter ‘V’ and this was famously adopted by the Allied forces in the Second World War as a powerful symbol of the war effort, reflecting Beethoven’s own belief in personal liberty. [This is a photograph of Winston Churchill] Figure 7 British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill giving...
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...simple to release the teaching content, since the material often required reversioning, rights clearance, or some form of adaptation. But nevertheless the initiative didn’t rely on individual educators engaging with complicated standards and adopting a new set of practices. Instead, OpenCourseWare built on existing practice by taking existing course materials and...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...Simple client–server application In this client–server model, many clients can connect to the server application and request information about books. The server has to process these requests and send the response to the client that originated the request and not to any other client. As long as the network is working well and the server can keep up with responding to...
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...codes of conduct or practice that you need to meet? Natalie Yes, there’s the Code of Professional Practice, and you have to remain mindful of the principles within that Code of Practice and make sure that you’re sticking within that framework. Interviewer Are there any particular aspects of the Code that are important to you? Natalie For me it’s always about being...
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...simple in principle. When you make a plan or a policy or an intent that is supposed to take place and be set into reality, you're making assumptions about the context in which that intent is going to live. You're making assumptions about the context in which the organisation or the team that is making a plan will live in. And what scenarios are about is to pay attention...
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...simple distinction that came to my mind is that whereas strategy suggests a time element – the future – systems typically suggests more physical or observable elements that occupy some kind of space that might be used, modified and adapted. Figure 1 provides my own distinctions between the terms strategy and systems. [Described image] Figure 1 Spray diagram exploring...
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...code for Caucasian straight hair, granting more power and social capital. Indeed, the idealisation of Eurocentric femininity with her long blonde hair and blue eyes was the iconic Barbie doll created in 1959. In 1967 Barbie had a Black friend, ‘Colored Francie’, and ‘Christie’ a year later who were literally made from the same Barbie mould with the same facial...